Top working Oso berry

[mike-n]

Anyone experimenting with Oso?

[swincher]

I started a thread on it here but haven’t followed up with any actual experimenting after failed rooting and then something eating the seedlings.

Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis) thread

Doesn’t look like this species has been mentioned much on the forum here, but it’s a native edible here in the PNW. The fruit is small with a lousy flesh-to-seed ratio, and some specimens taste strongly of cucumber. However, I have also tasted some that are quite good with a decent amount of flesh, and they ripen almost a month earlier than most other stuff, so I figure I’ll make a little room in my yard for some native shrubs. Especially since they seem to do fine in partial shade, and mostly …

Do you mean using it as a rootstock for other species, or for improved selections of this species?

[mike-n]

some sort of top working to another species was what I was originally thinking, but it’s the only one in its genus, and it’s already got so many things going for it…

[horna]

It’s looking ready to leaf out here so I might have already missed this years window to get better tasting scions from swincher